Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, sentence 21
“By virtue of my office as Prime Minister, I have taken it upon myself to put one question to all of you.
Who acts: Sun · What happens: take, put · To what, where: office, one question
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 taken | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 virtue | case |
| 3 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taken | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 office | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 office | nmod:poss |
| 6 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 virtue | nmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 Minister | case |
| 8 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 9 Minister | compound |
| 9 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 office | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 virtue | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 taken | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 taken | aux |
| 13 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 taken | obj |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 myself | case |
| 16 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 taken | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 put | mark |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 taken | advcl |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 question | nummod |
| 20 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 all | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 put | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 you | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 all | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | present · perfect | Sun and Yen = sun | office | by virtue of my office as Prime Minister; upon Sun and Yen = sun | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | put in a quote | to-infinitive | Sun and Yen = sun not said here | one question | to all of you | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Goal |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Winning Buddha's smile», Project Gutenberg book 78208 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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